Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1932 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Palaeolithic flint handaxe (North Creake, poorly located) |
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Summary
In 1969 a Palaeolithic flint handaxe was found at an unknown location in North Creake.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1969. Stray Find.
Found by [1] at unknown site:
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe. See drawing (S1).
Information from (S2).
This discovery was first reported in (S3). It is described on (S4) and in (S5) and is also noted in (S6) and (S7).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 December 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 1000000 BC to 150001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Clough, T. 1969. Drawing of a Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe from North Creake. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Palaeolithic. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 4. |
| <S4> | Record Card: Wymer, J. J. Wymer Index Card - Palaeolithic. North Creake. |
| <S5> | Publication: Wymer, J. J. 1985. Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia. p 17. |
| <S6> | Unpublished Contractor Report: 1997. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project. Regions 8 (East Anglian Rivers) and 11 (Trent Drainage). Wessex Archaeology. p 45. |
| <S7> | Website: TERPS online database. Site 22423. |
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